Dallas Heritage Village changing name back to Old City Park, will offer free admission

What’s outdated is outdated once more as Dallas Heritage Village introduced Wednesday that, beginning June 19, its name will revert to Old City Park.

“After almost two decades of celebrating Dallas and North Texas history under the name Dallas Heritage Village, we have decided to embrace our roots as the oldest park in Dallas and return to our former name Old City Park in a special celebration on Juneteenth,” in accordance to a press release on the park’s web site and official Facebook and Instagram accounts.

The announcement additionally says that, beginning June 19, admission to the park will be free on Thursdays by way of Saturdays thanks to the assist of the Eugene McDermott Foundation. Currently, admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $6 for kids ages 5 to 12 and free for youthful youngsters. The park is closed Mondays by way of Wednesdays, apart from Monday holidays.

Some of the park’s annual particular occasions just like the Old-Fashioned Fourth and Candlelight in the course of the vacation season should require a ticket.

A showcase for historic properties and life on the North Texas prairie within the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the park final modified its name in 2005 when it turned Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park.

Back when it was based in 1876, Dallas’ first metropolis park was known as merely City Park. It sat simply south of downtown within the posh The Cedars neighborhood, with bandstands, a pond, greenhouses, pavilions and the town’s first zoo.

But the neighborhood declined after World War II, and it wasn’t till 1969 that the park was revived as Old City Park, a resting place for historic constructions from Dallas’ previous. The Millermore plantation home was saved from the wrecking ball, disassembled after which reconstructed to turn into the primary of 21 culturally vital buildings on the park.

Details

Old City Park is at 1515 S. Harwood St., Dallas. dallasheritagevillage.org.